Co-funded by the European Commission within the GMES initiative in FP-6 Integrated GMES Project on Landcover and Vegetation geoland Plans for Geoland follow-on

Co-funded by the European Commission within the GMES initiative in FP-6

Integrated GMES Project on Landcover and Vegetation

geoland

Plans for Geoland “follow-on”Emphasis on global activities

Marc Leroy, Etienne Bartholomé, Jean-Christophe Calvet, and Marek Tinz

12 July 2006 HALO Workshop, Toulouse

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Geoland structure

Globalsurface- atmosphere

surface

Regional / Europe

Land Surface Monitoring

Globalsurface- atmosphere

surface

Regional / Europe

Land Surface Monitoring


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GMES Urban Services

GMES SAGE

GMES Forest Monitoring / GSE FM

TerraFirma / GSE GeoHazards

CoastWatch

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geoland outlook

Core Service

Interreg, LIFE, national / regional funding

Core ServicesEuropean Land Monitoring

Downstream ServiceOpportunities

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2013

Land Cover & Vegetation (geoland)

EC

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GSE Land Information

Services

20072006

Pilot Service“Land Monitoring”

IP Long Term Sustainability

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Precursor

2005 2008

FP 7 ?

GMES Urban Services

GMFS GMFS

GlobCover

Core ServicesGlobal Land Monitoring

Pilot Service“Global Land Monitoring”


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geoland objectives – Global Observatories

GEOLAND• the goal was to integrate European capacities, by assembling

them in a common work & objectives• preoperational demonstration consisted in off-line production

for each segment • organize R & D efforts oriented towards service needs

GEOLAND “Follow-on”• consolidate integration of national and European capacities,

including ESA efforts• pre-operational demonstration will consist to set up and run

near real time operational processes in each segment• develop the R & D work oriented towards service needs


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User Segment

Service Concept

European UnionPolicy support

CoreService

Downstream Services

Biogeophysical variables

- vegetation- radiation- water

MARS Africa Observ.

Land Carbon

Seasonal Eur. Mon.

Space & In-situ data

Low – Medium resolution satellites

geostationary -heliosynchronous

High resolution satellites

Ground truth


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User Segment (established / foreseen in short term)

• MARS DG AGRI: though MARS-PAC (MoU) DG AIDCO: through MARS-FOOD (MoU) FAO: through JRC/MARS-FOOD (MoU) (contract FAO DG Aid Co)

• Africa Observatory DG RELEX, DEV, AIDCO through JRC (MoU) UNEP: though JRC/AfObs-Env (MoU) FAO: JRC/AfObs-Env (MoU) DG ENV: contact in place by Af.Obs, no MoU AMESD directly with project and/or AU when in place

• Land carbon ECMWF: project partner DG ENV: contacts to be consolidated EEA: contacts to be consolidated National level: no specific agreement, possible channel through

EUMETNET

• Seasonal Monitoring Europe EEA DG Env ?


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Core Service / Downstream services

• A Core service is a service whose users are in charge of the implementation of EU sectoral policies

• Downstream services are services for other users. They include :

GEMS Atmospheric Services at ECMWF

FAO, UNEP, AMESD, EUMETNET (customers of the Core Service through Service Level Agreements)

others, to be identified later national regional other users through GEOSS ...


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Space & In-situ data

Vegetation Water Radiation

Space SegmentGlobal &

Continent.Coverage

In situ & validation

data

CO2

Soil moisture

High Resolution Images :

SPOT, Landat, IKONOS,

Air photos

Carbon Storage

Avhrr

VGT

Meris

Atsr

Modis

Amsr

Smos

Ascat

MSG Goes

OthersSmmi

Sentinel 3 EPS

Leaf Area Index

RadiationCrop yield and area

Environmental Stress Indicators


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Management Concept (tentative, TBC)

Biogeophysical Parameters

MARS Africa Observatory Land Carbon

NRT Operations R & D

NRT Op

R & D NRT Op

R & D NRT Op R & D NRT OpR & D

Vegetation

Radiation

Water

Technical Coordination & Project Management

Seasonal Monitoring of Europe

Lead : JRC Lead : ECMWF Lead : EEA

Lead : Medias-France


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Users

Near Real Time Operational Data Flow

CoreService

Biogeophysical variables

MARS Africa Observ.

Land Carbon

Seasonal Eur. Mon.

Space Segment

Modis Vegetation Sentinel 3 Seviri Ascat Other Geostat. Sensors

LAI, fCover, NDVI, Burnt Areas, Active Fires, Soil Moisture, Precipitation, Water Bodies, Temperature, Albedo,, Downwelling Flux

Information Bulletins + CO2 flux + Biogeophysical variables

European Union Downstream Services

MerisAvhrr / Eps Ers / Scatt


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R & D Plan

IN SITU DATA• Develop and maintain network of in-situ measurements for the validation of output products ;

FLUXNET, VALERI, Soil Moisture, BSRN, Carbon storage, Crop yield & areas, Environmental stress indicators

ALGORITHMS• Develop methodologies for customizing the products to user needs (example : filling gaps in

space & time)• Prepare multi-sensor fusion methodologies• Provide a platform of intercomparison of existing algorithms (“benchmarking”); produce &

document advices for further processing• Preparing the next generation of products / algorithms (to be produced operationally in the

next 2 or 4 years)

PROCESSING LINES• Produce with updated methodologies operational and validated processing lines to be

delivered to the NRT Op component

PRODUCTS• Producing archives of time series of all output variables. Reprocess these archives with

updated generations of algorithms


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Implementation Plan

INTEGRATION OF CAPACITIES

• Ensure coordination between near real time operations providers in Europe in particular land SAF (MSG. METOP, MODIS/TBC), VITO (VGT,

MERIS/TBC), MEDIAS-France (off-line reprocessing), EUMETSAT (incl. hydro products),

and operators for key operational or pre-operational applications, namely JRC/MARS & Africa Obs, ECMWF, EEA

take steps towards medium resolution pre-op. operation

• Integration of results from ESA GMES programs, such as Globcover, GMFS, Kyoto ARD, Globcarbon, and relevant national projects

• Prepare Service Level Agreements between service providers, and between providers and users

• Ensure centralized/coordinated communication and distribution access

NEAR REAL TIME PRODUCTION• Implement processing lines delivered by the R&D component in each segment• Production in near real time of biogeophysical parameters, operated from the

beginning of the project, NRT production soon after for the other components


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Sustainability

The goal of Geoland “follow-on” is to set up near real time operational capacity and proper European & national integration.

Steps to go to truly operational capacity need to be identified – part of GMES governance

• funding source

• funding mechanism

• milestones and planning

Documents

Co-funded by the European Commission within the GMES initiative in FP-6 Integrated GMES Project on Landcover and Vegetation geoland Plans for Geoland follow-on